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Google: SOPA is tantamount to censorship

Google Stands Up for Internet Freedom - On Wednesday morning, the US House Judiciary Committee met to discuss bill H.R. 3261, better known as Rep. Lamar Smith’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). While many have voiced concern for the act’s implications, just one SOPA opponent was invited to speak at the Congressional hearing: Katherine Oyama, Copyright Counsel for Google, warned that the bill is tantamount to censorship -- “Google has grave concerns about SOPA in its current form, and we are not alone. The technology community, venture capitalists, academia, human rights groups, computer security experts, and others have all expressed their concerns.”http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/pdf/Oyama%2011162011.pdf

2012 Cyber Security Predictions from the Websense Security Labs
PR Newswire (press release)
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- With all of the crazy 2011 security breaches, exploits and notorious hacks, what can we expect for 2012? We asked the top researchers of the Websense Security Labs™ to take a few minutes and provide their top ...

Senate Punts Cybersecurity to 2012
Nextgov
By Aliya Sternstein 11/17/11 07:02 am ET The Senate plans to hold a vote on comprehensive cybersecurity reforms during the first work period of 2012, according to senators on the committee with jurisdiction over federal computer protections. ...

DOT continues to lag on resolving cybersecurity problems
FierceGovernmentIT
DOT centrally tracks POA&Ms in a central system called Cyber Security Assessment and Management, but DOT component agencies don't always enter all known weaknesses into CSAM, the report says. The report also says office of the secretary of ...

The future of cybersecurity in cars
Help Net Security
by Berislav Kucan - Thursday, 17 November 2011. As technology evolves at a seemingly breakneck speed, we must be aware of the fact that the environments in which we find ourselves every day - environments that have in the past been computer-free zones ...

Google: SOPA is pro-Internet censorship, stymies cybersecurity
myce.com
On Wednesday morning, the House Judiciary Committee met to discuss bill HR 3261, better known as Rep. Lamar Smith's Stop Online Piracy Act. Introduced late last month, SOPA has garnered praise and criticism from all corners of the Internet. ...

Strategy: Cybersecurity: Continuous Monitoring Action Plan
InformationWeek Government
Federal agencies must transition from static cybersecurity defenses to automated, real-time monitoring and response. Here's how IT security teams can get started. (S2470211) John Sankovich is a vice president with Inforeliance Corp., which designs, ...

The Business Cyber Security Summit 2011
IT-Director.com
from Kids Say the Darndest Things Cyber security is fast becoming a business critical issue for many organisations around the globe. Recent high profile cases including the IMF, Citigroup, Sony, Apple, and the UK Office of National Statistics highlight ...

New cyber-security rules for defense contractors
The Daily Yomiuri
Defense contractors will be obliged to immediately report instances of servers or computers containing confidential information being infected by a virus, under changes planned by the Defense Ministry, it has been learned. The requirement is part of ...

Island has big plans for cyber-security
Manx Radio
Yesterday (Wednesday), a seminar hosted by the Manx Educational Foundation heard from three speakers about e-crime. The MEF hopes to establish an International Centre for Technology on the Island, which could become a world leader in cyber-security. ...

UK police avert hack attempt on Royal Wedding website
ZDNet (blog)
Charlie McMurdie told a London cyber-security conference that preventative measures were enacted to protect and safeguard the website, which had one of the highest traffic of all UK websites in the history of the web, from a denial-of-service attack ...

OVERNIGHT TECH: SOPA debate far from over
The Hill (blog)
One of the key voices still on the fence is House Cybersecurity subpanel Chairman Dan Lungren (R-Calif.), who said he thinks the issue requires more serious consideration. Lungren would like to see a deeper dive into the legislation, ...

SMBs more security-savvy but don't see themselves as targets
ZDNet (blog)
The latest survey on SMB security familiarity and postures by security company Symantec shows that about half of smaller companies are familiar with the sorts of cyber-security threats we are all up against. But at least half of them don't view ...

NATO Working with Private Sector to Deter Cyber Attacks
Tripoli Post
As such, in order to help resist and deter new threats to international security through the multiplication of often sophisticated cyber attacks, NATO has been working with some of the world's biggest private cyber security companies to share knowledge ...

PMC server hacked for bogus birth certificates
Daily News & Analysis
By DNA Correspondent | Place: Pune | Agency: DNA A serious breach of cyber security in the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has come to light in which forged birth certificates were made by using a fake identity for the computer server of the civic ...

The Next Osama bin Laden Already Has Your Social Security Number
Huffington Post (blog)
Late last month Janet Napolitano, Obama's homeland security chief, made some startling statements at a live event on cyber security sponsored by the Washington Post. For example, she said that hackers have "come close" more than once---maybe several ...

New flap over SOPA copyright bill: Anti-Web security?
CNET
Dan Lungren, who heads the Homeland Security subcommitteee on cybersecurity, said his panel has been working on ways to tighten the security of the Internet's domain names through a set of security improvements called DNSSEC. ...

Mobile shopping on the rise, security measures lacking
VatorNews
Technology has enabled us to enhance our shopping experience with the ability to research pricing, reviews, and product purchase options with ease not previously possible,” Michael Kaiser, Executive Director of the National Cyber Security Alliance said ...

Select committee demands new process for reporting cyber crime
Computing
"Some £63m has been allocated by the National Cyber Security Programme to strengthen the UK's response to cyber crime, in addition to existing resources. The Action Fraud service currently takes crime and information reports of fraud from businesses ...

2011 Federal Government IT Priorities
InformationWeek Government
IT security and cybersecurity were ranked the No. 1 priority. Data center consolidation moved up a few notches on the list, while the Open Government Initiative moved down. One of the big changes in federal IT this year was the resignation of federal ...

FAA embraces iPads more closely
FierceGovernmentIT
During the event, Cooper said the FAA is investigating a change of its cybersecurity model to center around data. "Nobody is after the device. You want the device? Here, I'll give it to you. Steal that--but if you can't get to the data, who cares? ...

DEBATE PREP: America the cyber sucker?
CNN (blog)
Renault's disingenuousness disclaimer could be the tag line for US cyber security policy. Just last month, the Director of National Intelligence delivered a report to Congress – "Foreign Spies Stealing US Economic Secrets in Cyberspace. ...

Politic?: Canada's Cyber-Security
By Pieface
We're sloppily trusting, to the extent that we allow ourselves to be manipulated by malign forces engaged in cyber-war activities. This is the message from one of Canada's primary security experts, Michel Juneau-Katsuya. Clever subversives ...
Politic?

Congress Should Amend SOPA to Address Cybersecurity, Due ...
By Nicole Ciandella
Unfortunately, missing from today's hearing was a substantive discussion of the practical implications of H.R.3261 for venture capital firms, Internet startups, and cybersecurity. While new legislation is urgently needed to combat rogue foreign ...
Center for Technology and Innovation ...

2012 Cyber Security Predictions from the Websense Security Labs ...
By News Release Archive
Websense predicts cybercriminals will use cyber-antics during the U.S. presidential election and will turn cell phones into ATMs. SAN DIEGO, Nov. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- With all of the crazy 2011 security breaches, exploits and notorious ...
Websense News Releases

Cyber Atlantic 2011 Shows Cyber Security Has No Borders ...
By admin
Cyber Atlantic 2011 Shows Cyber Security Has No Borders. by Sue Marquette Poremba, IT Business Edge. There are so many positives to having a borderless society, but it also means that cybercriminals can easily commit crimes anywhere ...
Techno-News Blog

The Identity Theft Council contributes to the FCC's Small Biz Cyber ...
By Neal O'Farrell
According to a survey released in October, 2011 by Symantec and the National Cyber SecurityAlliance (NCSA), two-thirds of U.S. small businesses rely on broadband Internet for their day-to-day operations. However, the Symantec survey also found that 85 percent of small businesses think their companies are cyber-secure, but barely half of these businesses actually have a cybersecuritystrategy or plan in place and nearly 80 percent say they lack a written Internet security policy. ...blog.identitytheftcouncil.org

Presidential Candidates Should Address U.S. Cybersecurity
By James Carafano
Cybersecurity is a weighty issue, one that should be addressed in the upcoming GOP presidential candidates debate dedicated to foreign policy and national security. ... @James Carafano. Tags:cyber security, defense, Heritage debate ...
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